Comparison

cal vs DayTrace

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

cal

Capture and revisit your daily memories with photos and notes. This app presents your month as a visual calendar, allowing you to easily view past moments. Your data remains private and stored solely on your device.

Highlights
  • Add photos to any day
  • Jot down notes for each entry
  • View month as a photo calendar
  • Full-screen view of daily memories
  • Export entries for sharing
  • Private, on-device storage
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Life moves fast. CalDiary helps you slow down and remember it — one photo, one day at a time. Add a photo to any day, jot a little note, and watch your month fill up with memories. The calendar view lets you see your whole month at a glance — every day a tiny window into your life. Tap any day to see your photo full-screen, with your note tucked underneath just the way you wrote it. What you can do: * Add a photo to each day — from your library or straight from your camera * See your whole month as a photo calendar at a glance * Tap any day for a full-screen photo and your personal note * Export your month view or a single day to keep or share Your memories stay yours. No accounts, no cloud, no servers. Everything lives on your phone — completely private, always. Free forever. No ads. No subscriptions. Just your days. Clean, minimal, and made for the little moments worth remembering.

About

DayTrace

Features
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Some days feel ordinary—until they become the moments you miss most. DayTrace is a warm, private journal for keeping the life you are actually living. Save a sentence, a set of photos, a video, or simply how the day felt. Over time, those small moments become a personal story you can revisit through your timeline and calendar. CAPTURE A DAY YOUR WAY Write freely and add photos, videos, or Live Photos. Enrich each entry with a mood, weather, time, and place, then favorite the moments you want close at hand. SEE YOUR LIFE TAKE SHAPE Follow recent days along a visual timeline and see recorded moments at a glance on your monthly calendar. Monthly stats and gentle prompts help reveal your own rhythm. LOCAL-FIRST BY DESIGN Your journal text, moods, and media are stored locally on your device by default. DayTrace currently includes no advertising SDKs and no cross-app behavioral tracking. Location is used for place and weather only after you grant permission, and manual entry remains available. MAKE THE SPACE YOURS Choose from 12 visual themes and customize page artwork and motion to give your journal a look that feels personal. CELEBRATE SHOWING UP Watch your recorded days, streak, photos, and videos grow over time. Thirty achievements mark meaningful firsts and longer rhythms—from your first entry and mood to a growing archive of everyday life. MORE THAN A JOURNAL Keep a wishlist, check in with habits, start a quiet focus timer, or catch an idea in a quick note. Write deeply when you can; save one small thing when you cannot. Your day does not have to be extraordinary to be worth remembering. Start with today.

Screenshots

cal4 screens
DayTrace4 screens

Verdict

The call

cal and DayTrace are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
cal versus DayTrace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametercalDayTrace
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.426.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBegimay Ahmatova章循 孙

In-app purchases

None

cal

No in-app purchases

None

DayTrace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is cal free?
cal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DayTrace free?
DayTrace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do cal or DayTrace have ads?
Neither cal nor DayTrace shows ads.

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